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Wildfire Risk Mitigation through Systems Analysis of the Planetary Emergency

ASCE Open
Recognizing wildfires as a multiscale planetary emergency, this paper describes a systems analysis of technology countermeasures, with special attention to Sicily, California, and several other regions.
James H. Lambert, R. Ranger Dorn, Bilal M. Ayyub, William A. Barletta, John F. Organek, Marco Piras, Megan E. Gunn, S. Fabrizio Zichichi   +7 more
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING CATASTROPHE INSURANCE MARKET

Economic Review, 2019
Natural and man made disasters cause severe human, physical and economic damage, both for the economy and for the population. There is a widespread perception that property insurance is the most efficient and economical way to protect against financial ...
Darko Blazhevski
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Nuclear War as a Global Catastrophic Risk [PDF]

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019
AbstractNuclear war is clearly a global catastrophic risk, but it is not an existential risk as is sometimes carelessly claimed. Unfortunately, the consequence and likelihood components of the risk of nuclear war are both highly uncertain. In particular, for nuclear wars that include targeting of multiple cities, nuclear winter may result in more ...
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Contribution of proactive management of healthcare risks to the reduction of adverse events in a maternity hospital

BMJ Open Quality
Background The risks of the childbirth assistance process are still very high, both for mothers and babies. According to the WHO, birth-related asphyxia accounts for 23% of all 3.3 million annual neonatal deaths and an even larger number of survivors ...
Romulo Negrini, Fernanda Paulino Fernandes, Liliane Costa Appel, Ana Paula Avritscher Beck, Ana Carolina Guimarães Eisencraft, Linus Pauling Fascina   +5 more
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Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThe global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase of global human ...
Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A. Judge, Melinda A. Judge, Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Quique Bassat, Quique Bassat, Quique Bassat, Quique Bassat, Quique Bassat, Ndola Prata, Peter N. Le Souëf, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Corey J. A. Bradshaw   +12 more
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The demand for homeowners insurance with bundled catastrophe coverages : Wharton project on managing catastrophic risks [PDF]

, 2001
In this paper, we estimate the demand for homeowner insurance in Florida. Since we are interested in a number of factors influencing demand, we approach the problem from two directions. We first estimate two hedonic equations representing the premium per
Grace, Martin F., Klein, Robert W., Kleindorfer, Paul R.   +2 more
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Global Catastrophic Risks by Chemical Contamination [PDF]

: Global chemical contamination is an underexplored source of global catastrophic risks that is estimated to have low a priori probability. However, events such as pollinating insects’ population decline and lowering of the human male sperm count hint at
Turchin, Alexey
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Global catastrophic and existential risks communication scale

, 2021
Existential risks threaten the future of humanity, but they are difficult to measure. However, to communicate, prioritize and mitigate such risks it is important to estimate their relative significance.
Turchin A.
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Toxic trajectories: Modeling heavy metal-laden phosphate dust dispersion and multi-receptor health risks near Kpémé’s industrial zone

Results in Engineering
Industrial emissions in developing regions pose catastrophic yet unquantified health-ecological threats, exemplified by Togo’s Kpémé phosphate plant. Current approaches fail to resolve atmospheric dispersion dynamics of toxic metal-laden TSP (e.g., Cd ...
Daouda Sama, Pamane Kpiagou, M’bènibé Gmakouba, Lipoublida Djagre, Agbessi Gerard Gnagamago, Laounwi Lakmon, Aboudoulatif Diallo, Kissao Gnandi   +7 more
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Preliminary Automated Determination of Edibility of Alternative Foods: Non-Targeted Screening for Toxins in Red Maple Leaf Concentrate

Plants, 2019
Alternative food supplies could maintain humanity despite sun-blocking global catastrophic risks (GCRs) that eliminate conventional agriculture. A promising alternative food is making leaf concentrate.
Joshua M. Pearce, Maryam Khaksari, David Denkenberger   +2 more
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